Computational Transportation Science (CTS) is an emerging discipline that combines

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

and engineering with the modeling, planning, and economic aspects of

transport Transport (in British English) or transportation (in American English) is the intentional Motion, movement of humans, animals, and cargo, goods from one location to another. Mode of transport, Modes of transport include aviation, air, land tr ...

. The discipline studies how to improve the safety, mobility, and sustainability of the transport system by taking advantage of

information technologies Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields within information and communications technology (ICT), that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, data and information processing, and storage. Information technolo ...

and

ubiquitous computing Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering, hardware engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear seamlessly anytime and everywhere. In contrast to desktop computing, ubiquitous computing imp ...

. A list of subjects encompassed by CTS can be found at include. Computational Transportation Science is an emerging discipline going beyond vehicular technology, addressing pedestrian systems on hand-held devices but also issues such as transport

data mining Data mining is the process of extracting and finding patterns in massive data sets involving methods at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and database systems. Data mining is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and ...

(or movement analysis), as well as data management aspects. CTS allows for an increasing flexibility of the system as local and autonomous negotiations between transport peers, partners and supporting infrastructure are allowed. Thus, CTS provides means to study localized computing, self-organization, cooperation and simulation of transport systems. Several academic conferences on CTS have been held up to date: * The Fourth ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science * The Third ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science * Dagstuhl Seminar 10121 on Computational Transportation Science * The Second International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science * The First International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science There is also an IGERT PHD program on Computational Transportation Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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